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Latest revision as of 10:57, 7 August 2025

The Main Menu (or just Menu) is the place where you can play the game, open the map editor (when going to the main menu via the editor), go to the Tutorial, check your achievements and statistics, change the settings or quit the game. At the bottom, random splashes scroll by (e.g. Tomorrow's weather report: Overcast). The top-right displays the current version of the game. The background music is the Main Menu Theme by anosou.

The Main Menu Theme

Trivia

There is a map called NewMenu.map which is a map showing a landscape with a Shroom at the left and a Minute Jade on a table. Next to the Minute Jade is also a radio and a console that apparently does nothing. It was speculated that this meant the menu would've been a map, but this was not the case; it was probably an abandoned project. It can be seen in the video Cobalt - Action Teaser 2011 at 0:04.
Formerly, the Main Menu had a "landscape" layout, which was changed in v124.

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-[[File:MainMenu.png|400px|thumb|The Main Menu showing the Version of the game, the random sentences, the buttons and the Cobalt logo.]]
+[[File:Menu2.jpg|400px|thumb|The main menu as of v266 Gold.]]
-The [[Main Menu]] (or just '''Menu''') is the place where you can Start a new Game, (not yet possible) open the [[Level Editor]], go to the [[Tutorial]], change the Settings or quit the game.
+The [[Main Menu]] (or just '''Menu''') is the place where you can play the game, open the [[Level Editor|map editor]] (when going to the main menu via the editor), go to the [[Tutorial]], check your achievements and statistics, change the settings or quit the game.
-When entering the menu first, the Cobalt logo appears in the middle and moves to the top left. Then a 3D wireframe cube gets created and the buttons appear and the Tutorial selected by default.
+At the bottom, random [[Splash|splashes]] scroll by (e.g. Tomorrow's weather report: Overcast).
-At the bottom, random sentences are scrolling, telling random texts (e.g. Tomorrow's weather report: Overcast).
+The top-right displays the current version of the game.
-At the top right it also shows the current version of Cobalt.
+The background music is the Main Menu Theme by anosou.
-In the background you hear the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEeR1jz7bc#t=0m8s Main Menu Theme].
+[[File:Cobalt Menu Music.ogg|thumb|The Main Menu Theme]]
 ==Trivia==
-*There are 34 random sentences in Cobalt (not counting the //, ////////////, and so on):
+*There is a map called NewMenu.map which is a map showing a landscape with a [[Shroom]] at the left and a [[Minute Jade]] on a table. Next to the Minute Jade is also a [[Radio|radio]] and a console that apparently does nothing. It was speculated that this meant the menu would've been a map, but this was not the case; it was probably an abandoned project. It can be seen in the video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_fVcmtN3vw ''Cobalt - Action Teaser 2011''] at 0:04.
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Sun Storms
+*Formerly, the Main Menu had a "landscape" layout, which was changed in v124.
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Space Debris
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Overcast
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Meteor Showers
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Sunny
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Snowing
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Raining
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Thunderstorms
-**Tomorrow's weather report: Electron Bursts
-**Never trust weather reports
-**While night time is not or less then day time
-**Experts Agree: Purple is the new black
-**If auto updater doesn't work, download a file with a secret message?
-**Been turned into a metalface against your will? You can sue!
-**Service your metalface regularly!
-**Did you get sued for turning someone into a metalface? You are screwed!
-**Don't look straight into beams
-**Always point phaster away from body
-**New emotioons are common. Stay calm and carry on
-**Never attempt to unscrew brain cover unassisted
-**Always wear hard hat while brain exposed
-**Buy Octocream! 45% better*
-**Got legal troubles? You need Spencer & Pratt!
-**Try not to remember your past life
-**Never shoot homing missiles straight down
-**Don't LIE!
-**Arriving on time is second to safety!
-**'I used to release alphas on Friday, then I took an arrow to the knee.' - Oxeye
-**'If not enough thingybob, add more Fairlight' - Anosou
-**'I eat my cheetos with chop sticks so I don't get the yellow crap on my fingers' - Genius
-**The Cobalt Computer - The greatest leap in cyborg research
-**Cobalt is not microwave oven safe
-**Cobalt - It's there to protect you!
-**Cobalt - Never leave home without it!
 [[File:NewMenu.png|400px|thumb|The NewMenu.map as seen in-game.]]
-*There is a map called NewMenu.map which is a map showing a landscape with a [[Shroom]] at the left and a [[Minute Jade]] on a table. Next to the Minute Jade is also a [[Radio]]. There's also a Console that apperantly does nothing. This map might mean that the menu will be a map in the future. It might be also an abandoned project.
+[[File:MainMenu.png|400px|thumb|The former main menu, as seen in v101 Alpha.]]
 [[Category:Game mechanics]]